Looking for talented artists to create hand-drawn image diagrams explaining Nostr and the relationship between clients and relays. The diagrams should be clear, concise, self-contained and visually appealing. Multiple submissions will be accepted and rewarded with a bounty. Get creative and show us your skills!


I thought the `nak bunker` thing was supposed to be a debugging tool and for learning purposes, but it has worked well enough to become the main way I use Nostr.


Remember: The most viewed streaming ever on Nostr is not from dev but a craft beer brewer, not about technology but philosophy.

And the streaming server that provides this streaming is just a mini PC.

#Siamstr

nostr:nevent1qqsyug30mdldkegh97zlych0l9d9xyetetrve55y9v3u08utczrju9gpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygyzxs0cs2mw40xjhfl3a7g24ktpeur54u2mnm6y5z0e6250h7lx5gpsgqqqqqqsf80p9g


🇫🇷 https://mistral.ai


Combination of expensive and whitelisted relay

Requires users to manually register themselves to be able to publish events and pay a fee except whitelisted pubkeys

https://github.com/1440000bytes/relayer/tree/master/examples/expensive-whitelist

Cc: nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6


Everything is theater. Don’t be distracted. Don’t trust, verify.


Putting life savings onto a node and then running a custodial service off of it.

It's time for people to take personal responsibility.


Losing 4 BTC :(

All people who like to tinker with lightning need to read this front to back

https://stacker.news/items/347361


Lightning usage is growing, and while it may be far from perfect and might not have some of the mass adoption we would have wanted by now, the superior payment technology will win out. Nothing comes close when it comes to instant payments derived directly from the base chain.

The use cases that Lightning facilitates are much more than just one person paying another. E-commerce, tipping, automation, and services benefit from what Lightning offers. However, the sad truth is that there are still many missing pieces to solve to reach its true potential as a self-custodial privacy-preserving instant payment network.

I'll review some problems and the solutions to them, both for the Lightning ecosystem and what we're doing about it at Mutiny. If we can work around some of today's pain points, we can unlock the full potential of the internet's native currency.
Lightning usability

I aim to make self-custody for Lightning easy for as many use cases as possible. I want to do all this while preserving as much privacy as possible for users. One of the biggest downfalls of Bitcoin has been the need for more privacy. However, Lightning can fix this if done correctly. One of the beautiful things about Lightning is that we have essentially built a Tor Network on top of Bitcoin. The problem is that there are far too many gotcha's in it to pitch it that way. If we fix privacy on top of Bitcoin & Lightning, we must make it easy for people from start to finish. One of the first steps is to move off of custodians.

Custodian usage dominates the Lightning ecosystem today. It's one thing to say that everyone should self-custody on-chain Bitcoin. Yet, the complexities involved in Lightning make it that much harder to apply or suggest to others. It's hard to blame people. It is difficult for wallets, application devs, and general users.

Let's examine why custodial Lightning solutions exist and which applications become custodial. I want to make the argument that we can do better and we can replace that. Now can we always be perfect? Absolutely not. But when have we as a community given up and said, "Well, I guess I'll just recommend a custodial solution. We have no other choice. It is just too hard."
Wallets

One example of dominating custodian usage is wallets themselves. There are a few great self-custodial Lightning wallets like Pheonix and Breez, and I hope we can one day make Mutiny into that class of wallets. But why are they not recommended sometimes? I feel that it is due to two things. The online nature that Lightning requires and the fees associated with opening channels.

For receiving payments, being online is a non-starter for many use cases. You can't expect someone to keep the app open while someone is paying you. You also can't expect them to manually create an invoice and copy-paste it to someone else on the internet every time they want to receive money. It can't be global money if half of the world wants to do commerce while you're asleep. This is one area where custodial lightning wallets thrive because they are run by businesses that specialize in keeping their lightning node(s) online. Sure, someone can run their own server with a node, but that won't be a solution for the world.

A protocol specification called Async Payments will allow for a simulated offline receive scenario, but that may still be 6 to 12 months away. Afterward, many of the problems around offline payments will go away.

The other aspect of fees and opening channels is also something custodial lightning wallets can avoid exposing to users. Many users can use all the Lightning channels a custodian has. However, with self-custodial Lightning, it's a one-to-one relationship. Opening a channel for each user will one day be a non-starter. But can we do better? I believe so.
Federated Wallets

One of the exciting things I want to do when feasible is to incorporate Fedimint into Mutiny so that any user can get started with Lightning at any amount. If it's a small payment or a new bitcoiner with only a handful of sats, opening a channel does not make sense. They won't have any money left over even if they did. If a user kept that in a federation (multi-sig for custodians), it would allow for greater security than trusting a single actor while supporting lower amounts. Once a user has enough funds on the Fedimint, they should transfer that to a self-custodial wallet.

In practice, I believe it is the minority of people who move on to a self-custodial wallet. How often do you hear the excuse that bitcoiners make when they onboard a user to a custodial Lightning wallet but say they will "come back later and inform the user about self-custody"? That's the biggest lie bitcoiners tell themselves when it is called out. No, you don't return to that coffee shop you visited once on vacation to educate them about self-custody. Sorry but nobody is buying that. Is it a good thing you got them on Bitcoin? Probably. But at what cost? Will you inform them what happens when the custodian inevitably goes away? Are you aware of how many custodial Lightning wallets have shut down?

Combining Fedimint & self-custodial into the same app would be a game changer. Federated custodianship for small amounts and onboarding, then in-app prompts to upgrade them to self-custodianship while maintaining the same UX they were onboarded to in the first place. No need to go back and migrate new users to an entirely different wallet. No confusion around the nuances the user has gotten acquainted with.
Applications

Now what about general consumer applications? Well, there are a lot of apps out there that are or can be Lightning native. Think Stacker News, a Hacker News clone with sats as the upvote mechanism. Or Value-4-Value applications like Podcasting 2.0, where you stream sats to a podcaster as you listen to them. For sending sats, none of these have to be custodial. Breez even supports self-custodial payments to a podcaster as you listen to the podcast in the wallet.

However, there's currently no other easy option besides custodial for receiving sats. This goes back to the offline receive problem. Because Stacker News allows upvotes to go to the post author, it has to either be custodial or require each stacker news author to run an always-online lightning node and provide invoice macaroons with an exposed IP address for someone to upvote them. If there's a hiccup or the author's node goes offline, the ability to upvote disappears. Degrading the experience for all users. This will inevitably cause Stacker News users to move to other third-party custodians anyways, defeating the purpose of trying to make it self-custodial and ending up with a worse experience.

And suppose it will be custodial for authors to get upvoted. What's the extra step in making it custodial for senders as well? It turns the application into a custodian and money transmitter simply because they want to allow sats to be the upvotes. You might say, "Don't put too much on there," but it doesn't absolve them of their legal requirements and risks. It's not just Stacker News, either. That's every application wanting to offer their users non-custodial receives and frictionless spending. They should not have to be a custodian to ship a new lightning-native app.
Built-in Lightning

So how do we do better? We make it so Lightning can run anywhere because Lightning should be everywhere!

Part of the reasoning for Mutiny running on the web was to get around app store censorship, which will get worse over time, not better. People have theories about how it'll end up, but until things change, it has only gotten worse.

The other reason is that if we can get a Lightning node to run on the web, we can argue that Lightning can run anywhere. In fact, it only took 5 days for me to build the Android version, and I mostly did that with some spare time at night. Should you store your life savings on the web app version? Absolutely not. But can we be better than custodial? Yes, from both a privacy perspective and ease of onboarding. We can even inform users to move to the mobile apps after they acquired enough sats.

We built the web wallet specifically to dogfood our own node implementation, called mutiny-node, which can run anywhere. So any web app or native mobile app dev can import it into their application to take their hands hands off user funds. If we can solve the offline receive problem, and incorporate federations for smaller amounts with the same UX and API calls, then applications can truly flourish. You shouldn't need to be a lightning dev to incorporate Lightning, and you shouldn't need to be a bank to include it, either.

There are many ways it can play out, but I think one of the end goals is to have a single "login" with just twelve words to access your funds. You may want to manage your wallet and funds on the Mutiny mobile app. Still, when you want to link your non-custodial wallet to a website like Stacker News, you can get the same exact balance and Lightning state there. We recently incorporated Versioned Storage Service (VSS) as an encrypted data store that can restore your lightning state with just your seed words, making the restore process simple.

I acknowledge that restoring seed words onto just any site is a bad practice. Still, Mutiny specializes in being a spending wallet, not a life savings wallet. If you're worried about how much is on there and what might happen if you restored your seed words on a bad site, then you've put too much on there for how you use it. Mutiny is also a lightning-first wallet. All lightning wallets are hot, so if you're putting too much on a hot wallet in the first place or have a problem with it being treated as hot, you need to reevaluate what you know about Lightning and what standards to compare it with.

The alternative here is to have multiple Mutiny wallets. It's just seed words that power the wallet's identity, authentication, encryption, and funds. So if you don't want to risk the funds from the Mutiny Wallet mobile app, create a new wallet for each app you interact with and deposit sats as you go.

This removes applications from being a custodian while having a better risk model than before, where you were logging into your wallet (or application's wallet) with an email and password to access your funds. In the future, Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) is something we could incorporate to keep the keys off of the user's device or browser too.

And topping up all the application wallets you may have should also be seamless. We support Just-In-Time channels that create a lightning channel for you whenever needed. So a brand new wallet (or new account on a lightning-enabled app) should be able to receive their first lightning deposit within seconds of creating it.
AI Use Cases

There's also the evolution of AI that could benefit from this. Just like you wouldn't put your life savings on a hot lightning wallet, you also need to limit how much you would give to any automation / AI tool. An easy-to-use self-custodial lightning wallet that can run anywhere is a perfect tool for developers building in automation.

The L402 (formerly LSAT) specification that allows for an HTTP protocol using error code 402 to communicate when a payment needs to be made to access resources could use this. This can be used in many settings, but one of them is allowing more web automation and monetizing resources as you go. Bots can now be "paying users" instead of huge resource consumptions.

One advantage of using our SDK is that you can build the wallet straight into your AI application. We develop our SDK in Rust and compile it for web assembly. It has pretty good support across many languages, including Python. There is no need to spin up an LND node, expose ports, build in Python GPRC bindings, and manage an entire node just for the small amounts of funds you want your app to access.

For two, you can send funds to it as you go. Keep your lightning funds secured elsewhere and top up this specific AI. Is your bot not behaving correctly? Stop feeding it sats. Has it been successful in its job? Pay it right from your mobile lightning wallet to keep it going.

Or better yet, let it request more straight from your main wallet when empty! It's a tangent for another day, but Mutiny has built-in payment requests. You can give out a specific "API key" that allows others to request funds from you that you have to approve, revocable at any time. We use the protocol called "Nostr Wallet Connect" for this. We're testing this out with the concept of "subscriptions" on Lightning and for sending tips on nostr (zaps). There are many more use cases, like digital purchases or topping up other wallets or services.
Everywhere

Lightning could not be everywhere before, at least in a non-custodial way. The main challenges are:

    Offline receives
    Instant onboarding (even for small amounts)
    Easy-to-use SDKs for developers
    A wallet/node that can run on any environment
    Instant onboarding
    Protocol for payments

However, these things are being solved right now. So what will it look like to have Lightning everywhere?

My dream is that every site has Lightning. New user account, new lightning wallet. Top up as you go, or bring an existing wallet if you already have one. Reward users directly for actions taken inside the site (could be a game or p2p rewards), then they can turn around and spend those sats within the site. Lightning knowledge or setup doesn't have to be a prereq. It can look like in-site points.

We already see this "points" system EVERYWHERE, which the world has figured out. Starbucks Stars, Airline Miles, Twitch Bits, etc. Bitcoin isn't the problem here. Onboarding is. If everyone had to sign up for an exchange with KYC info, then wait for approval, link a bank account, wait 3 - 5 days, then download a separate wallet on their mobile phone that they have to switch to any time they want to spend their Starbucks points, then change back to the Starbucks app to complete the order, it would NEVER HAPPEN. The key is to build it straight in, which all these wildly successful companies have done.

And when you have "points" that can be transferred or used for purchases, the circular economy can be born from this. The Nostr ecosystem is the closest to figuring this out. New users are coming in, getting tipped in sats, and turning around to spend it on paid-only relays or tips for other new users. This is the adoption we want, and it's already happening. The problem is it's happening with custodians. Self-custody is seldom the case. All the income, spending, and behavior are being monitored, in addition to the risk of rug pulls or seizures.

After Lightning is incorporated into sites, you can start integrating Lightning into APIs. A single website owner doesn't need to be the provider of the APIs either. We can begin making API requests across domains and allowing the 402 payment-required response to prompt the user to make the payment (or automate it). 402 can remove the identity from the resource consumption too. So no need to have accounts across the entire internet to use a one-off functionality.

What would websites look like if they were more modular, pulling in premium resources or services from a configurable collection of paid-only one-off APIs from any third-party providers? All without website operators needing to custody user funds or maintain all those services themselves.

There has never been much modularity in HTTP APIs because there has not been much monetary incentive to either maintain third-party APIs or integrate with billing systems and expose that to the user directly. Frontend-only websites can prosper with significantly less upfront costs and full-stack expertise.
Conclusion

Lightning on consumer websites, service APIs, and even hardware devices to protect the user keys even further. This is all possible. We have to keep pushing toward it, which is what I'm doing here.

Suppose Lightning is going to be the instant payment network of the internet. In that case, it must be capable of running anywhere to support endless applications. It should be easy for devs to utilize and not require them to be a custodian. Preserving the user's privacy is important as well. We can keep using custodians, or we can put the power into the user's hands. Which side of this do you want to be on?


The best selling android phone in 2023 was the samsung galaxy a14, its only $147 on amazon right now, but many times you can get it even cheaper or even for free on many phone plans. This is incredible!

Going to optimize damus android for the cheapest phones and the lowest bandwidth conditions. We need to be optimizing for people with limited data plans. negentropy v1 is going to be vital for this, which is why I’m so excited for it. Many of these same optimizations will be in damus iOS and notedeck as well thanks to #nostrdb.

Billions of people have yet to be onboarded onto freedom tech. 2024 is going to be an exciting year for nostr: More clients, more use cases, more algorithms, more choice, more freedom. Lets get to work 🫡


I know each company can create the business model they want, anyway we are in the free market, right?

Yes, but this commemoration of the legendary Darthcoin caught my attention. Fewer devs, more community participation, especially for FOSS wallets.

https://stacker.news/items/347708

#bitcoin


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡


The OP_RETURN discussion is not new and dates back to 2014 when Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 was released with the OP_RETURN policy included which was intended to discourage more egregious forms of spam. At that time, 40 bytes was the default max datacarriersize limit across all node implementations; this was and still is sufficiently large for tying data to a transaction (32 bytes for a hash and 8 bytes for a unique identifier). Core subsequently increasing the default to 80 bytes was an entirely voluntary decision and in no way contradicts the design objective that OP_RETURN creates a provably-prunable output to minimise damage caused by data storage schemes, which have always been discouraged as abusive. There are also other good technical reasons which I have chosen to retain the lower default in Bitcoin Knots, and no justification for increasing it.

It is not my intention, nor that of my team at
nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze, to filter coinjoins. These present an innovative tool for increasing Bitcoin’s privacy and, when constructed properly, coinjoins can easily stay within the OP_RETURN limit (indeed, there is no reason for them to have *any* OP_RETURN data at all). I have some ideas on how to alleviate the recent issue where some coinjoin transactions were flagged as spam from Knots v25, and I am willing, with the full resources of my team, to work collaboratively on a solution in good faith.

Bitcoin does and always has allowed nodes to set filters based on multiple sets of criteria and Knots v25’s defaults are IMO what is best for Bitcoin at this time. Others may disagree and that is ok. They are free to (and should) run their own nodes - it is good for Bitcoin to have more people running nodes, including miners, and there should be a natural diversity in node policies. As was stated before, OCEAN is on a path to decentralization and very soon we are going to be in a position where hashers will be able to fully participate as miners and perform the intelligent parts of mining such as deciding which version of node software to run and what filters or other policies to apply to block template construction.


This is one of the most important developments in nostr. We getting rsync for nostr queries. Incredible work, thank you Doug! Time to start implementing this in nostrdb. nostr:note1f6ym3cfyjfzzf64f060aglcvzn2mr36z4g4ve5ep2uw6h6kcucts0t44hq


upside down world


https://youtu.be/iE-CvJrAB5c?si=zzz_sP6lHjFjn7oB

These ladies have escaped kidnap attempts,  had their bank accounts frozen and had family captured and tortured.

All because they protect innocent people against unlawful AML injustices and use #Bitcoin as a tool to help politically oppressed citizens.


Got a 0.3.14 release of Coracle for you all! The BIG ONE is still coming (soon™), but if you read the changelog below you'll see some hints about what's coming.

- [x] Remove sliders icon, add plus button next to pills instead
- [x] NIP 52 time-based calendar events publish/render
- [x] NIP 99 classifieds publish/render
- [x] Add support for bunker protocol (nostr:nprofile1qqsrx4k7vxeev3unrn5ty9qt9w4cxlsgzrqw752mh6fduqjgqs9chhgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsd5c0fz )
- [x] Improve theme switching reactivity
- [x] Re-work replies, note rendering, and feed controls
- [x] Speed up login


They moved from standard.h for policy.h: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/policy/policy.h


Just published a breaking change in https://github.com/fiatjaf/jingle for adding support to a bunch of new functions and helpers and things that may ve helpful to someone in their quest to conjure a custom relay out of nothing using only JavaScript, the best language to ever exist in this world.


UX specialists may be partially responsible for the dumbing down of the computer users over time.


I have turned off my NIP-07 extension to force me to think about NIP-46 and use it. The result is that I almost stopped using Nostr.


Live now 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBCsG7fLmQQ


Do I have to remind you all that again I was right?
https://stacker.news/items/258612/


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE 🫡
https://m.primal.net/HSrI.jpg


Tried to pay with LN somewhere and was getting charged a 25% premium over on chain lmfao.

Worst part was saying fuck it then getting hit with a "US citizen denied" screen.

That's basically the state of things right now. 😪


WE WILL LAUNCH A NEW MINING POOL THAT DOES IT RIGHT.


we are live 🪨 https://bitkey.world/en-US


This discussion about OP_RETURN, Ocean, mining pool, Ordinals…It is moment for search solutions are good for everyone. #bitcoin


GM Nostr


Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

"In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information. Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests," Apple said in a statement.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/apple-confirms-governments-using-push-notifications-to-surveil-users/


FAMILY, BITCOIN, NOSTR, AND FREEDOM.

WE ARE THE FEW. WE ARE THE RESISTANCE. TIME TO STAND THE FUCK UP.


Alright fellow psychopaths.  I need your help.

For a few weeks now I've been drafting this turn-key response to FinCEN and their absurd proposal for CVC mixing, etc.

I want you to take action and use what I wrote in this proposal to post comments into the register - less than a minute to perform and all the links are in the document.

Accelerate.  Take Action.  #Bitcoin

https://egodeath.capital/blog/fincen-may-be-violating-your-rights-bitcoin


Here’s the plan:

1. Remove search from universe view, use this inline search (inspired by mail app).

2. Advanced search. Things like until:date,since:date,@author.

3. Add contextual searching to different areas like profile pages and dms. nostr:note1a80nc9vp9a3janwway74n84jd3c3ad9pgqds4max8jvmx2vdsn4szwqwd0


TIL: You can buy satscard in India using this site and avoid shipping charges

https://www.etherbit.in/products/satscard-first-edition

Cc: nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8


MINING POOLS THAT CENSOR BITCOIN TRANSACTIONS ARE AN ATTACK ON BITCOIN. ANY SELF RESPECTING MINER SHOULD NOT MINE WITH SUCH A POOL.

ON A POSITIVE NOTE, POOLS THAT DO NOT CENSOR WILL EARN MORE IN FEES. BITCOIN WORKING AS DESIGNED.


Another normal day #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/26764c16e022fd0b80bb3832ef0f1dc5fb6681b827dcf2874cc39fca7851f48e.jpg


We’re 2017 vibes again? #bitcoin


Bitcoin Core v26.0 binaries is Live!

Highlights:

- Version 2 P2P transport (experimental level)
- Taproot in Miniscript
- New RPCs for working with states for assumeUTXO

and many more

Source: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.0/

#bitcoin


Few #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/e625edc0c1ab530892ba9a9f9d22024262fb9f3e8cb363a5ded983823229ace3.png


My software doesn’t have bugs, it has Easter eggs


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/0afe3a961e24d44476297a6f26311e382649861999f8140213ac943f7560e9e3.jpg


I don’t care for Nostr Asset Protocol. I keep building normally on #nostr and #bitcoin


Nostr is the better mousetrap that will make the world beat a path towards freedom.

https://image.nostr.build/7d8cdc2ae0124488e9a3190135a861a9b00aedea528b40f05e7323c08df12989.jpg


nostr:npub1xpuz4qerklyck9evtg40wgrthq5rce2mumwuuygnxcg6q02lz9ms275ams What would it take for https://yana.do/ to have a "no reactions, no reposts" mode? Currently it is impossible to read the notifications because there are so many reaction entries they eclipse the replies and quotes, which are the only things I want to see.


We....found another block.


🚀🚀 nostr:note15ekw9xdwgj4q864s0mymhz6ms7cpkwxujmw8tv3kjdyr973nnwvqrw57fl


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/9c26bfb5e45b58cf070ab8306f1153f672a0de4ddd18aa2b99ef291fb07f294e.jpg


DLCs getting close in Mutiny 😎

https://github.com/MutinyWallet/mutiny-node/pull/888


BIG NEWS: Primal for iOS is now live on the App Store.

This release comes with an integrated lightning wallet, ability to zap and get zapped, send & receive lightning payments, and buy small amounts of sats via an in-app purchase. I will talk in detail about our wallet approach soon.

We worked really hard to make the Nostr onboarding experience as smooth as possible, and give new users the ability to send and receive zaps without friction. Please try the app and let us know your thoughts! 💜🤙

https://m.primal.net/HRoA.png

https://apps.apple.com/app/primal/id1673134518


NDK 2.2.0 released!

Codename: OAuth unleashsed

This release includes new features that will be proposed for NIP-46 that create an OAuth experience.

More things:

* NDK is now 13x faster
* NDK-Svelte-Components event rendering now neatly renders images as a carousel when appropriate
* Tons of bugfixes

Demo video:

nostr:note1ykstnu4l09xyrqyvq8xk7gvfe2m40sse6ezy82gy8u3zdv3k60tsqmnhj6


2024 is going to be the year fedimint fixes everything.


Highly experimental Lightning address that will lead to loss of funds:

<npub>@cashu.me


I have heard for years from UX specialists that Lightning would never be used by "normies" because QR codes were too confusing.

Then in less than 2 years PIX came from nowhere and became the most used payment system in Brazil and the people love the QR code experience.


We're excited to welcome the first group of builders in Madeira soon!

https://sovereignengineering.io/2023/11/30/meet-the-1st-cohort.html


Open source = don’t trust, verify. Few #bitcoin


These things related to the mining pools like freezing Bitcoins, filtering transactions we’re creating a monster can mess our protocol after and until to be Government extension. However,  thank Stratum V2 and others initiatives we can solve this problem. #bitcoin


🎮 From late-night gaming to esports glory, our very own @santos shares his journey and the evolution of competitive gaming. 🌟

Discover how this passion led to innovations in Bitcoin payments in gaming. Dive into the full story and get inspired! https://blog.zbd.gg/the-future-of-esports/

🤝 Join the inspiring quest to redefine the future of esports—your invitation awaits!

On December 10th, ZBD's top-secret Winter Invitational begins.

Join us at 2PM EST on November 30th to see what the future holds.

All funds raised go toward the invitational prize pool. https://geyser.fund/project/zbdthefutureofesports


We’re building the future of esports and we’re looking for pleb support!

Join us at 2PM EST, November 30th to see the reveal of our next arena based FPS infusion. We’ll be hosting an invitational tournament on December 10th.

All proceeds go to the prize pool.

https://geyser.fund/project/zbdthefutureofesports


Getting a demo video ready of something cool I made

#announcementofannouncement


I've noticed a terribly degraded experience in most clients since I restricted my "read" relays to a small set that is free from reply spam.

It's actually awesome that things still kinda work, I guess thanks partially to the outbox model and partially to the horribly unscalable practice of unlimited rebroadcasting, but there are still many problems that I think most people aren't seeing because they're all reading from the "global state" relays like the band, the lol and the well-ordered.
nostr:nevent1qqsdnkptp4c6zgt6xylk7mzu7pfxdsfhduaajhx0f6m80vq57h3klqgprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsygpm7rrrljungc6q0tuh5hj7ue863q73qlheu4vywtzwhx42a7j9n5psgqqqqqqsfm5s67


Bitcoin ecosystem is growing everyday

Bitcoiners are excellent builders

Keep building...

#bitcoin


Me trying to use satellite.earth and getting super confused: https://cdn.satellite.earth/212b4bb761f7d876a7c03d3578c6fa15e44c12ece7b7cc28dc8e794d05367fd8.mp4


Primal for Android is now available on Google Play Store in open testing mode. Starting with today’s release, we will offer Play Store, APK, and source code downloads for each release. Please note: due to the way Play Store app signing works, upgrades will only work if you use the same install method.

This is a big milestone for us, as we march towards the full v1.0 release in the coming weeks. 💪

New Features
- Feed: link previews
- Feed: image media gallery
- Feed: video thumbnail previews
- LUD-06 support

Fixes
- Improved CDN handling
- Removed shimmer from avatars when loading
- Fixed highlight color in note content
- Various small fixes

https://primal.net/downloads


#Joinstr ✊ https://joinstr.xyz https://image.nostr.build/dbaab4047fe6a98fd5b8ddf8eb8f70d9c818e23ed982156bd8a2ccf57ad1883d.jpg


Great day for #bitcoin nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk

“As we stand today, Bitcoin is not a censorship resistant network, rather it just happens to be a network that is not currently being censored. As with other forms of centralization (hardware, firmware, ...), the role of mining pools must change for Bitcoin to exist as a truly decentralized currency.”

https://ocean.xyz/about https://image.nostr.build/b56b135b6bf84a6249de07b2743bc92f8b30b923c4d7685626e0e6fde9188a17.jpg


“She thought it was the ocean…it’s just the pool.” https://ocean.xyz/dashboard


"It's unclear whether BS refers to bullshit or BlueSky"


Decentralized mining pool. No kyc, no registration. Rewards go straight to your bitcoin address. Realtime actual hashrate scoring, no moving average over N period. Block template previews. Stratum v2. Lightning coming next year.


More attention should be paid to OHTTP in the bitcoin space


You can. It is not waste of time, we’re discussing ideas.


may have spent the last 8 hours building a fulltext search engine in nostrdb.

I made the index as space efficient as possible, they keys are stored in a compressed format and map words and word indices to note ids. So when you type “the quick brown fox” it will be able to return results with those exact words in sequence (or not if it can’t find a sequence).

Testing it now 👀. Will release soon ™


Over 800 projects use Nostr

https://github.com/topics/nostr?o=desc&s=updated

#bitcoin


Nostr won Wiki on the Github

#bitcoinhttps://m.primal.net/HRYm.png


Nostr + CoinJoin #bitcoin


ZEUS v0.8.0-beta5 is now available.

## New in beta5

- LND v0.17.2
- Dynamic LSP fees
- Tap to enlarge QRs
- New sending lightning animation
- Express Graph Sync on by default
- Updated default LN fee limits
- Removed 50k onboarding limit
- Onboarding improvements
- UI improvements

## Links

Blog post: https://blog.zeusln.com/zeus-v0-8-0-open-beta/

GitHub: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.0-beta5

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq
Fee structure: https://docs.zeusln.app/lsp/fees

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.app/zeus-v0.8.0-beta5-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.app/zeus-v0.8.0-beta5-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.app/manifest-v0.8.0-beta5.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.app/manifest-v0.8.0-beta5.txt.sig

PGP Key: https://zeusln.app/PGP.txt

iOS

Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi
IPA: https://zeusln.app/zeus-v0.8.0-beta5.ipa https://image.nostr.build/cf74df9c7141ed7c18f4976773fb912b6a651f5b479b25bfea2b2091afd53642.jpg


great https://youtu.be/X_xgmVLyB94


OK fam, here's my video on reducing your on-chain fees. How to stack & spend efficiently in a high fee environment. Main video on top, supplemental tutorials all listed below. Give it a try & lmk what you think.

https://youtu.be/5kNMJd-Ts2c?si=nuMoI8FLJxX7EvxV

Videos for every tool mentioned/used in the above tutorial:

Bull Bitcoin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBRZKsIOpS8

Sideswap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbo-eq6KwdY

Blockstream Green:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DesN85bWmGA

Blockstream Jade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_MoWfu1b9k

Boltz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7A9wZJN-M

Phoenix Wallet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtAmevYpdM

Sparrow Wallet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_SpQX_YKw

Coldcard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYmE5-40PQ

Bip85:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRRB_WzZpTM


It might be an interesting experiment to go an entire month without talking about bitcoin on nostr.


Public domain isn't recognized in some jurisdictions.


Yep or put unlicense


Yes


Some of my many opsec mistakes:

 - Buying domains with a credit card
 - Using AWS with my name and credit card
 - Doing KYC with CloudFlare
 - Showing my face at conferences and podcasts
 - Antagonizing KYC Bitcoin companies
 - Not being careful about nostr posts, which cannot be deleted


Most startups use API of OpenAI

Centralization and monopoly is problem in this market

We need more AI solutions, mainly FOSS

#bitcoin


Divide and conquer is how we win.

Without search, nostr is indivisible at scale. It remains one big community that falls under its own weight.

The "other stuff" is a multiplier, it requires social to be greater than zero.

GM ☀

nostr:note17u7admqvzsv3ynjee35g3m5gst0k8rksn3pv065awtjp7xzupeys25h5y5


The PlebDevs Backend course is here!

In this comprehensive and beginner-friendly 13-lesson course, we'll transform you from a JavaScript n00b into a proficient backend developer, with a special focus on Lightning App Development.

We’ll pick up from the simple frontend custodial lightning wallet that we built in the first PlebDevs course and make it fullstack and self custodial by creating/hosting our own server, API, Database, and Lightning node!

Purchase with Bitcoin on Emeralize: https://emeralize.app/course/purchase_detail/47/
Purchase with fiat on Udemy: https://udemy.com/course/plebdevs-backend
If you don’t want to pay all of the code/slides are available for free here: https://github.com/pleb-devs/plebdevs-course-2

Checkout the Plebdevs community on discord: https://discord.gg/t4NkDKRCK8

Also check out https://plebdevs.com for links to everything

Let’s level up together 🤝
$boost


New Yana release with outbox model: https://github.com/frnandu/yana/releases/tag/v0.12.0


FOSS is the way. Most things I created are open source. I think this make your project decentralized, trust minimized, censorship resistance and many more. #bitcoin


Bitcoin Core should change license from MIT to domain public? 🤔 #bitcoin


I am using Zeus with wrapped invoices nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5
https://m.primal.net/HRTX.jpg


We don’t do KYC so it’s impossible for us to know how many of our users are cats. nostr:note1rx0rvw0g7yj5a96s5hj27hsd0k9vfn96wewt4fyvxgftzpy3n68su8sy2s


Run a node, buddy! https://image.nostr.build/668ef0ac729752489278f38eda1dd2819fb63dca5e02d9ba4d841c23d671a05a.jpg


Paying in person with LN and waiting >30 seconds for a confirmation is bad UX


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/4f030687794bb0f03d3c78091dd5ba99ac071c9ef297dc66c08ed2540cf472ee.jpg


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/089f84cf917e011588a135a04620a4deae1fe2547b85084110aca9c9bfc485b3.jpg


nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg is there a way to see the route a payment used? I just paid for coffee with Mutiny and it felt as slow as when I pay with my tor-only node 😅


Next version of NDK Svelte Components will recognize multiple images and allow you to display them as a carousel or with whatever behavior you choose

https://v.nostr.build/qxXa.mp4


Opsec is especially important when practicing civil disobedience


everybody is waiting for the christmas fee-drop to manage LN channels and UTXOs

so much that fees might actually go to the hell up 😅


And isn’t necessary Drivechains 😁


Yes, ZBD is custodial with KYC. By this is high risk. I think small Nodes or NodeRunners being LSP instead of centralized solutions, we can solve this problem. I spoke months ago about “LSPs decentralized”, however is moment create new solutions


Custodial lightning works great, but it's going to become ever more regulated. Nothing wrong with regulations per se, but the danger is they will apply constricting regulations that will make lightning banking useless: ZBD for example has ridiculous limits like $250 per transaction, not more than $1,000 in the account, etc. It puts us in a position to make Lightning irrelevant.

In which case, Fiatjaf is right, that we need to start thinking of alternatives.


The more people FUD against LN, the more it gives me motivation to keep building on it.

https://stacker.news/items/329306

#bitcoin


I knew this day would probably come, but didn't expect it so soon.

I am being investigated for running an illegal money transmission business in Canada (nodeless)

Under the advice of my lawyers I need to shut down the main instance of it.

As you guys know I made Nodeless completely open source in the event that this happens, so that others who don't live under communism can run a honest, privacy focused payments business.

To my clients who are using it, I'm very sorry for the short notice but you'll need to find a new payment processing solution this weekend.

DM me on telegram and I will personally walk you through setting up a btcpayserver instance that you can self host, or even your own instance of nodeless.

I can't give much more information than this, not even supposed to say this much, but I owe it to you guys to let you know what's going on.

To install nodeless on your own server, you can get started here:
https://github.com/nodeless-io/nodeless-monolith


👀 https://image.nostr.build/98b8d3b4eae3df21cabf79e3cfe6018e0ed331cfa745f89c840879f335b2fc20.jpg


Privacy is in our DNA. Not only do we not want to know how you're using your money, but we're building things in a way that we can't.

Not all wallets can say the same.

https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/privacy/ https://image.nostr.build/f64dc54df5b570a52fb2abebe90971ce24fbadb21de5b8711585194d37f85bf3.png


It’s quite hilarious how well the mutiny thesis has worked out, apps delisted from app store and WoS rugging in the same year.

Exactly what we built to counter act.


Thank you nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2 for helping us to  raise awareness about the ongoing attacks against #bitcoin in the EU:

🔸New attacks on PoW as a “Energy-Wasting Mechanism”, "energy security threat" or “Environmentally Harmful”;

🔸Labeling as „threat to financial integrity” the use of self-hosted wallets/p2p transactions and over-regulating crowdfunding activities. nostr:note1r8dsk7rm38dzthj3mh6j3ssqhs6lywd8px8j5m7z25klgzar3qnqz7e55h


We've got two new pages up on our docs site today:

Onboarding to lightning:

ZEUS lets you onboard onto lightning in a few different ways: using multiple LSPs (including our own, OLYMPUS by ZEUS), and manually opening up channels to whichever peers you want! 🤯

This doc breaks it down for you and highlights the tradeoffs.

https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/lightning-onboarding

Privacy:

ZEUS offers first-in-class privacy for a mobile lightning wallet. Learn about all the properties that keep your transaction data safe.

https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/privacy


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/626c6974fc86a87cb3ca567311078c89bfdbb7805842eba35fcccbb247a08cda.jpg


Live on Fountain.

Bitcoin and human rights under attack 8n the EU.

https://fountain.fm/episode/tUGxt0fyLcQaJMPPFsy0


The next episode of The Once Bitten Podcast is with the @ODFoundation

How is #bitcoin    currently under attack in the EU and if misguided policies are put in place why is it catastrophic for Human Rights?

It will hit your feeds sooon.


Good weekend 💊 #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/7720e26a24c9eebedb5515a6306a260bc21e74f31e69aecda43690008477f6ab.jpg


Non custodial wallets are way https://x.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1727937085741678679?s=46&t=XVvcZTrIQmLufMEQ9S0F6g #bitcoin


I'm not a fan of WoS, but here are the following questions:

- United States will close the siege against Bitcoin wallets
- The State wants to control everything, this starts by using third-party tools, such as the App Store and Google Play Store as extensions of the State.                  - Regulation will hinder company innovations and only the king's friends will be able to work there. #bitcoin


nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg devs got it right 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/b5766bfb22e9251dca82d461742b51ba0b8192441a3781e34b8845cc1f481338.jpg


Finally someone asks the important questions about BitVM
https://m.primal.net/HRGl.jpg


I bought coffee paying straight from my nostr client

The future is wild


nostr:npub1yxprsscnjw2e6myxz73mmzvnqw5kvzd5ffjya9ecjypc5l0gvgksh8qud4 are there any plans on having plugins for REQs on strfry like you have for EVENTs?


Dart DLC and FDK was last announcement and releases in 2023 from Area Layer. See you in 2024. #bitcoin


“the more you abstract the more you abstract”

- Popular brazilian proverb


this is the part of the story where the suits roll in to try to capture the whole thing - wonder how long it takes them before they realize it's not possible


Join us! nostr:note1sg0hywqunsdsc2mqa8dvdrfz7nz58ytdxxyce5ufadea7f9fkukqgwjd6d


10,000 new Amethyst users from Thailand in the past few days. Incredible 🚀


Nostr Notary services DVM speced:

https://www.data-vending-machines.org/kinds/5900/


How bad is the idea of people contributing alternative URLs to images published in notes using a special event and clients loading these when the primary URL fails?


Example:

Bob publishes a kind:1 note: "look at this image: https://images.com/image.png"

Alice publishes a kind:789 with tags:
["e", bob's note]
["original", "https://images.com/image.png"]
["alternative", "https://imagebackups.com/image.png"]


2000s - “We don’t need a website.”

2010s - “We don’t need a digital strategy.”

2020s - “We don’t need to integrate nostr.”


Milei didn’t Epstein himself.


💯

Discovered https://darkovelcek.wordpress.com/ through nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and never looked back.

Plenty of water with grey sea salt, bananas, raw eggs and coconut/olive oil for breakfast, ditching coffee and flours, raw veggies, raw meat and cheeses for lunch/dinner.

Just can’t believe how much energy these simple foods provide during the day.


They said that the Austrian School and anarcho-capitalism was a lie, a meaningless theory...

However, these narratives fell apart once again and along with it Bitcoin won (again)

I repeat once again: I have no faith in the State.

#bitcoin


It’s time for incentive people build non custodial solutions. #bitcoin


The beauty of open-source software: https://cdn.satellite.earth/1aaf763919534a2c00a78b8690f6773a4657c5e8be952c0a2b3fd519238ed9e4.png


Making some changes to the default fee limit behavior in ZEUS. Feedback would be appreciated: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/pull/1857


Up on Fountain.

The Spirit Of Satoshi AI tool!

https://fountain.fm/episode/Tdzs0HWgojzX5Bv8rv5g


Here we go again:

`mkdir`

GM!


good morning nostr, the reason we started ten31 is because suits continue to burn billions of dollars on garbage projects while bitcoin companies often struggle to get funding

https://m.primal.net/HQXM.jpg


Tor takes forever to start up and make circuits, has its own consensus, and will likely never be packaged in the most popular consumer apps. Think Cash App.

OHTTP has browser and native OS support. It’s just crypto sprinkled on HTTP. Client complexity trades with this manual infrastructure set up by wallets & services which is the right one for payjoin where clients’ barriers have been too high.


Payjoin V2 protects IPs without Tor


One question: Isn’t necessary Tor for PayJoin V2? If yes, is a good news


👀 https://gist.github.com/DanGould/425bde63ca13da238071a7935bb3ea3f


DVM content discovery in Nostrudel

Right now it only shows one algorithm, the one that I wrote for Fomostr a while ago

But any developer can create their own algorithms and explore the gorgeous long-tail effects of nostr.

This looks so trivial, so small, that is hard to grasp its significance. But squint your eyes and imagine the market that can emerge from this.

https://i.nostr.build/RPen.png

https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/tools/content-discovery


Love this! I was kinda hoping you would take the mantle in making this graphical when I wrote my note about this yesterday!

A few notes:

"Proposed DVM's need to filtered" should refer to NIP-89 instead of 31.

DVMs should announce themselves with NIP-89 which allows them to give a specific "sales pitch" on why a user might choose to use that DVM for each particular use case.

Here's an example of what it would look like in Highlighter:

https://i.nostr.build/g8BB.png

The NIP-89 can provide anything a typical profile has:
* avatar
* name
* about

For nostr content discovery probably I wouldn't add parameter support, as the vast majority of DVMs of this kind won't require them and it makes the UX much more complex. Nostr content discovery DVMs that require a parameter are probably better left to more advanced/nice UIs.


DVM Algo's + Custom Feeds = 🔥
https://cdn.satellite.earth/2c5a0d842e1c49ec81393b66f2c9e297219b5a5b9de22a7d1da59626d1b21eb1.mov
Had to quickly prototype this to see how all these pieces could fit together and how to not make it a UX nightmare.

👉  Some Algorithms will need a specific input (profile list, setting) and some will not. That's why that's selected first.
👉  Proposed DVM's need to filtered (f.e. using NIP-31)

I like that this is (hopefully) where the complexity would stop for the app, since the DVM's take over from there.
#nostrdesign #customfeeds #dvm #dvms #feed


Cool 😎


“Relays Oblivious HTTP requests to protect IP metadata in the Payjoin v2 protocol”.


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/7f7b734bcce3e4989fe1dcd5da83a2a5020276a3237f998a993d26284e1f0559.png


🤔 nostr:note1a38vpxc3qnhl7zhyn25y2ga0sjndrjwral09fhw2jaxy4arjdqtsky09u3


workin on the new client

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/damus-android-alpha.mp4


When you create tools that focus on privacy, the State automatically hates you.

If the State hates you, it means you are on the right path.

Good weekend.

#bitcoin


🤯👀

https://github.com/payjoin/ohttp-relay

#bitcoin


gn nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 users

Make sure to check your zaplocker instance before going to bed so Zeus can take his 50% cut


A JavaScript package doesn't even allow me use to install its dependencies anymore. When I try to do it runs a "preinstall" script that forces me to install something called "only-allow", and then "only-allow" takes over and prevents any further installation from happening unless I stop everything I'm doing and install a different package manager because apparently that is very important.

If I delete that bizarre restriction everything works as usual.


Freedom to get rekt.

If you want to potentially pay outrageous on chain fees due to a stuck zap to nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 - you can go right ahead. It's in the admin section of the settings.

Invoices and lightning addresses were always allowed, it was just zaps, which are typically low in value and are done without the user knowing they're potentially paying a hodl invoice. This is also wasteful to the network from a locked htlc perspective.

This was never a hypothetical situation, there has been many instances of this happening to our users since Zeus Pay, and with on chain fees being really high, is not worth making small payments that get stuck. But if you want to do that now, glhf.

https://m.primal.net/HQVF.png


ZEUS will never block payment to our competitors’ wallets, disparage or belittle anyone trying push Bitcoin adoption forward, or give up on trying to ship self custodial solutions.

We will, however, continue to push the limits of what is possible on Lightning in order to provide an amazing payments experience, in a self custodial manner, for as many people as possible.

The app store release of ZEUS v0.8.0, featuring our embedded node(“the node is in the phone”), OLYMPUS LSP, self custodial Lightning addresses, and rebrand, drops in December. Much more will follow in 2024.

We’re grateful to everyone who’s come along for the ride with us and we’re excited to help onboard the next wave of Bitcoiners.

✌


Thanks Semisol for warn me 😎


I’m thrilled to announce that the first long-form book of fiction on Bitcoin - 24 - is now available for purchase.

https://www.amazon.com/24-Avi-Burra/dp/B0CN9NS87B/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1700089125&sr=8-1

Here’s the blurb:

“Surreal, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, 24 is a book about Oliver Battolo's journey, as he comes to terms with the unexpected death of his father, and in the process discovers that he had been harboring a bizarre secret.

Set in the year 2022, Oliver learns how to slay demons past and present, as he unravels the mystery that leads him to secrets hidden in paintings, returning characters from childhood fantasies, alchemy, and somehow, bitcoin.”

There is a hidden bounty in the book, that can be unlocked by finding clues spread all through. I will be periodically adding to the bounty with a percentage of the book sales profits until it is claimed. Right now, it stands at 10M sats and can be tracked here:

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qy5enkjplrwm4kaag4qgqjppsjy4k3a6fy7z879

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it over the last year!


582. ZEUS
https://image.nostr.build/4640f57f660c98aa586294ed255c6a0f72831539f4aec4fe1eb6147a16bf4370.jpg


As the guy who made the spec that Zeus Pay is using to enable async payments, I support Mutiny's decision. I think disabling payments to destinations that are known to use hodl invoices is the right move for mobile nodes until some method for mobile nodes to safely pay them is discovered.

Right now a mobile node cannot safely pay a hodl invoice without risking an expensive force closure. But this also exposes a griefing vulnerability that mobile nodes are susceptible to. Nodes simply cannot tell the difference between a hodl invoice and a normal invoice. But if they do pay a hodl invoice, and then go offline for more than a day, they are likely to get force closed, which costs them money.

Since these "dangerous payments" are indistinguishable from safe ones, it is easy to grief someone if you suspect they are running a mobile node and are`on a regular zapper: get them to zap you, hodl their payment for about 10 hours or so, and then settle it. There's a good chance you'll put them in a force closure state at no cost to you. Which means *all* mobile nodes are dangerous to use for zapping right now. You can easily get burned.

I am grateful that Zeus exposed this problem and I look forward to thinking of more/better mitigations than trying to block all hodl invoices whack-a-mole style. That might work fine in a non-hostile environment, but I suspect we're heading into dangerous waters on lightning. Here there be trolls. Watch yourself.

nostr:nevent1qqsthlsymdheuj8tdcxwzxdz5y5y7aqhdedw7jzkw7rh6m3s5x05mtsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndw46xjmnewaskcmr9wshxxmmd9uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyhszymhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43z7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz8nhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgtcwne7ch


Introducing Kind0.io

A NIP-41 proof of concept.

What is NIP-41? A simple way to migrate from a compromised key into a new key while signaling to your followers what happened.

It works by whitelisting your next npub ahead of time and timestamping it to something that can order events chronologically (ie the Bitcoin blockchain)

When a key is lost or compromised the new key can sign a migration event, timestamp it as well and then clients can choose to act on it.

For more discussion on this, listen to nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 's recent Bitcoin.review where they go over the why and the tradeoffs.

Here’s is a very rough video of a very rough tool to implement this whole flow.

This is not the last word on key management; there is still a lot of work to be done, but this is a small step in the right direction that will allow us to migrate the existing nostr social graph to more cryptographically complex schemes for whoever wants to do that.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/3f1bf208810669bd3a9eaa7a0b9c7ff2d75d1abc893a6b2db8463d6f4923d083.mp4


good morning nostr, grassroots freedom tech adoption is hope 🫡

https://m.primal.net/HQSe.mp4


GM frens ☀

Massive things on the horizon. We are going to win.


I’ll check. Possible bug?


🤔 nostr:note1epud55e5c78jx7sue5ecawdaxqtm0lvkru0jhkxvw89f9r2gqqxq48xhfl


> LND's continued priorities on shitcoins instead of features

True


Relay hints solve all the problems. Without relay hints Nostr is dead.

My recent experience of not having any of the top-3 famous relays in my read list shows how much I can't read.
Even if I get all the notes from people I follow thanks to the outbox model I still can't see a bunch of mentioned people and quoted events.


Now I feel bad for running LND 😩


CLN is the way


We have recently disabled the ability to zap nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 wallet users from Mutiny. You may still pay their invoices or LN addresses normally but a big problem we were seeing was force closed channels due to stuck payments to Zeus due to their work arounds with locked payments. Which harm both the user experience and other lightning nodes on the network.

Since nostr users are mostly unaware if they're zapping Zeus users or not, we are taking this step proactively to protect users from having a 10 sat zap costing them serious on chain channel closing (and reopening) fees.

The approach we are working on for solving lightning addresses on mobile wallets is a fedimint hybrid approach where the sats end up at a federation if you are offline but get swept to your self custodial channel when you come online. Payments will settle instantly with the federation and it won't lock up unnecessary HTLCs on the network.

Ideally we get the ability to do offline receives normally on LN but that future is looking really grim with LND's continued priorities on shitcoins instead of features, and offline receives depends on a network wide upgrade.

We petition Zeus to move to a more responsible node implementation like LDK unless their plan is to add shitcoins or break LN further.


About "uuids": do you need a UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE identifier for entities scoped to a single single person that will be manually generated and will rarely exceed 10? Maybe apps should try to generate smaller pseudo-random ids that are easier on eyes and on bandwidth and storage.

Like hash the current timestamp and take the first 6 characters or something like that.


Lightning address + Onion Message

#bitcoin

https://gist.github.com/t-bast/78fd797a7da570d293a8663908d3339b


🎯💯 nostr:note16jtkxqtkdhe9e0qq32d3fqfwjzkwsyd6h6ta0z23zswvheg85pvsa56kpg


CBDCs are the AI's money
https://i.postimg.cc/Kz3vS74B/darth_cbdc_compliance.jpg


Dear friends, today is a great day for online privacy!

With an overwhelming 51:2 vote, the EU parliament has decided *AGAINST CHAT CONTROL*  proposed by the EU Council. It included warrantless mass surveillance of phones and circumventing end-to-end encryption.

The fight is not over yet.

We will see how the Council adjusts its stance.

https://proton.me/blog/eu-parliament-chat-control

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-agreement-on-child-sexual-abuse-proposal-csar-european-parliament-wants-to-remove-chat-control-and-safeguard-secure-encryption-2/


Democracy doesn't exist.

Democracy is fantasy idea.

Forget politics, right or left.

Focus on #bitcoin, #nostr and cypherpunks


Fiatjaf was smart. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/883


How can I get all client developers to go read, discuss, raise important controversial points and ultimately agree with this entirely? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/880


If it also generated a relay list and a URL that you would click and it would open a client with your nsec already set up there ready to be used I think this would be perfect.


Maybe instead of prompting the user to assign a name you let the person who invites to pre-fill their name for them. So if I'm inviting Bob to Nostr I just give him a link that already sets his name to Bob.

Once Bob is using Nostr they can change their name as they please.


Proof-of-Concept: onboardstr.vercel.app

Objective: billions must generate nostr accs

I think this should be the way we onboard 80% of ppl to nostr. i had a friend download damus then i proceeded to bore them with ‘follow this guy’ or ‘add this relay too btw’.

add your npub to the end of the onboardstr url, and when your friend generates an nsec they will have all the same follows/relays as you straightaway. instantly their feed is lively, and they can curate it themselves from there. https://image.nostr.build/a6f5d0feec8a10780414daaa180d700cd166dd3af405859dd9b023d35f6fa9e1.jpg


👀 nostr:note1qt55uh6nj0ldfaluxwtkty8qhhhgaksk00ghvyuxjvz2anmfcvysnvqjsd


1 #Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/c1e1e53354a2ea8fd57a42873ce0eeee9d48ee30f5566bb731c1584e54647126.jpg


CBDCs are scam. #bitcoin


Yeah, this flow is what I've been building and what I'll get back on after I finish with the NIP-41 microapp.

What's missing from this video is the flow where a second app is authorized to use the account just with Nostr-identifier+password to authorize. That part is already implemented in my proof-of-concept, it just looks ugly.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/1b6df25e8a0b8465d92c27bd1b3b23109fc16c4639e7909e64108d8930478088.mp4


Is alby the only Firefox extension for nostr?


Very excited for the first Nostr PHX meetup!

Join nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4  & I!

📅 November 17th, 2023
⏲ 6:00PM

More details ⏬
https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyrsdfkxfnrxd34qy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddaksygzmqxp6kmp7xg4lf4qudvawlxzk9g2ys3ahfx25xunu25u6z9zk8cpsgqqq0jes7lp45a


He’s so cool https://image.nostr.build/2fc4cdd0f488ad306b62bb8f5dac24089d4521a8f8744e17f62e91ba1351c901.jpg


good morning nostr, stay humble and stack sats 🫡


I can’t speak anymore


Now we're talking haha


I’m building a project unite this everything. It is very hard and cool


wallet of satoshi is a closed source custodial bitcoin wallet that many bitcoiners have installed on their phones with camera and clipboard permissions, most new bitcoiners throughout the developing world use it, and the overwhelming majority of nostr users

in my mind there are only three possible scenarios for WoS: rug, shotgun kyc, or deliberate honeypot


AI + Python + Go 🏗

#bitcoin


I'm just now discovering that you can "follow" other people's mute lists on nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg , so you can use their mute list to further improve your feed!

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https://m.primal.net/HQEa.png


🚨 Today I'm launching Ontolo. 🚀

Ontolo is a super simple micro-app that will hopefully entice everyone spend a bit of time labeling other Nostr events. NIP-32, if you're not familiar, allows anyone to label/review/comment on any nostr post. It's an insanely powerful concept (thanks nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn, who wrote the NIP), but it's still pretty underused in clients.

Why would you want to have labeled events?

1. Discovery: Labeled events can be used directly by social clients–like nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 or nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg when trying to suggest content that users might like.
2. Training data: We're at the gates of the era of AI. Classification algorithms and machine learning have been pretty good to classifying content but with a training dataset they can become WAAAAAY better. Hopefully, labels in Nostr will become a public good that all clients can lean on to create their own AI models for discovery, onboarding, and a hundred other things I've not thought of.

This is an experiment, like all of them, so please hit me with your feedback. Expect more fun social features soon. 🫂 LFG!

Thanks to everyone who helped me think through this over the last few days, from Tokyo until now.

🫂 nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4 nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1cd0l3s6qgj0s6690rtkys39mgj5upwxpm4856nhmce0pyqu6xj9qh7xlvx nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w

https://www.ontolo.social


When Threads on Nostr?

Soon.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/877

#bitcoin #nostr


A coinjoin is a collaborative bitcoin transaction that can break the probability analysis used to track bitcoin. Multiple people sending a batched transaction at the same time.

If you do not use coinjoin then people and companies you transact with can track your entire financial life.


In America private bitcoin usage is legally protected by the first and fourth amendments of our constitution.

In practice private bitcoin usage will be protected globally by all of us taking and defending our freedom by building, supporting, and using open source tools.

No privacy? No freedom.
No freedom? No wealth.


nostr:note1chae6l9vh757zzzxun80u8g5etyqgegu3xcvudy6aked9q69al0qans7pz

I do this kind reflection for offend nobody, but rethink and show ours issues


Maybe


Haha.


I observe that Bitcoiners have total control syndrome. Even though they create a decentralized product, they want to control everything and become mini dictators. That’s crazy! I don’t offend nobody, this is only my observation. #bitcoin


You may need to manually construct and post the note, but I think just include an extra field in your type 0 metadata:

{name: <username>, about: <string>, picture: <url, string>}


I don’t know


nostr:note16s54jqqntuk2lpdwamhaw3cncav9xsf5z054dmvhtkypt4yuu78s3cm8y2

'Nobody's building on Payjoin'


Amidst what's going on lately, I thought it might be a good time to remind everyone that nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg supports both PayJoin and CoinJoin.

So if you're running a BTCPay instance, you can:

1. Withdraw Bitcoin from exchanges with PayJoin, obscuring the amount to outside observers.
2. Auto-initiate CoinJoin when certain conditions are met (desired Bitcoin amount and fee market).

Bonus: You can easily run your own coordinator, mixing your Bitcoin without using mainstream services and coordinators.

This could be a great asset for local communities with regular Bitcoin flows (e.g., DCA of members) to boost privacy collectively.

The best part? It takes about 20 minutes to set up. I'm considering creating a video guide - would you watch it if I did?

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How can I add custom fields to metadata of a nostr profile?


"This workspace is in the process of being translated from C++ to Rust."

https://github.com/klebs6/bitcoin-rs

#bitcoin


BOOM! nostr:note1zeyu767c27zd9pn0hntpq89jsk2p99xvjx6zhfd42fyap86arc4shq986l


And happened: https://robinlinus.com/bitstream.pdf


Yes.


👀 https://image.nostr.build/19297ce08ed1b38d5b1ce362240d7d990dbda4f6796cc99c5c80fa20403be1de.jpg


How encrypted channels would work in joinstr and help against DoS attacks:

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3620499

Let me know if you see anything that could be improved.


We need a Nostr client that only displays curated feeds using NIP-32 labels, like Coracle does, but without the normal microblogging stuff. You click on a profile, you see whatever they have curated, not their actual notes.


We've released a new version earlier this evening to help with smaller payments that were not going through. Let us know if things have not improved on the latest version.


Good weekend #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/04952a79d4c52f7e94ed4672f0be1b775a4c62e9489fc1d2a8c49ef67b39e2e4.jpg


Remember when we thought the mempool was about to clear.


UMA-shaming on Nostr will be a thing


"The current model does not deal with extreme volatility well. Mempool variations and price volatility create situations where the UTXOracle price can temporarily vary from the centralized exchange price by more than 10%. While this can likely be improved upon with a more comprehensive model it does highlight a potential serious limitation of the practical use of the model."

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/utxoracle-model-could-bring-use-cases-to-bitcoin


Thanks for mention. It is possible some Node is manipulating Bitcoin price. For this Bitcoin price is very different


Signal getting close so you don't need to share a phone number with someone to talk to them 🚀

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866


The dawn of a new era for ZEUS. https://image.nostr.build/77d6f9ee814c4b32fcee9659531a174ccf86cca51da21706b9fb4b2491513949.png


A very good comment from  erskingardner on this topic: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/864#issuecomment-1801862054

https://cdn.satellite.earth/5423187fff8bda50d18e8bb6adee2bf58577a256c30456ebe1da0cbab93775ab.png


Nostr is ready for main list?


Frankly, I also think Nostr isn't ready to replace email lists yet.


I thought Bitcoiners in general understood Nostr already, but I was miserably wrong: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022141.html

At least Andrew Chow recognizes he didn't look much into it and is clearly speaking from first impressions gotten from microblogging clients.


HTLCs + Musig2?

https://github.com/pool2win/ln-synctomic/

#bitcoin


Humility in Bitcoin destroys any ego

Few

#bitcoin


Building only #bitcoin


I have been quiet lately, but it is for some good reason.

I am turning my medical device company ( eyenetra.com ) into an open-source project.

As some of you may know, I spent the past 15 years trying to increase access to eyeglasses by developing and shipping a new class of vision-testing devices. Even though we shipped thousands of units and served millions of patients, Nostr made me realize what I was missing all along: true decentralization.

All of our hardware designs and software will be made available to the FOSS community to build their own vision-testing devices and services. And I am going to be working with design/manufacturing partners across the globe to bring them to the market in as many variations as we can.

It has been a long process but I finally have all approvals to make it happen. Thanks to all my shareholders who believed in this idea and allowed me to make it happen.

The future is bright.


I am getting close to giving a more detailed assessment on Israel/Hamas, as it drags on.

And it will probably be Nostr-only since other platforms can’t handle it. It is too polarized. Everyone is tunnel-visioned.

My husband is currently in Cairo dealing with some property work we are doing for our extended family. They are only 250 miles from the problem, and Egypt’s acute currency crisis brings it closer to home if military or refugee shit hits the fan. Most of my extended family is geopolitically or financially close to the Israel/Gaza issue and is Muslim. I am thus both close and far from the issue. And I grew up in the US in a diverse region with Jewish and Muslim peers, but more-so Jewish overall.

Suffice to say, I don’t want civilians on either side to suffer or die. I am pro-humanity first and foremost.

Before I give my eventual analysis, I am happy to see Nostr comments on the issue. What are your thoughts and questions on the topic? What would you like to see addressed from a diverse or as non-biased source as possible?


Happy birthday 🎂


Happy Birthday Nostr! #bitcoin #nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/commit/6158017db0b12686218113232fff175a45953e2f


njump.me's internal cache can be queried as a relay now, thanks to https://github.com/fiatjaf/khatru

nak req -l 5 -k 1 -a fa984bd7dbb282f07e16e7ae87b26a2a7b9b90b7246a44771f0cf5ae58018f52 wss://njump.me | jq .content


https://m.primal.net/HPXD.png

🚀 Breaking News: Geyser migrates to Nostr! 🌌

Every Geyser project now gets a unique Nostr identity (NPUB) - a big leap for the Open Creator Economy!

🧵

🆕 Your Geyser project lives on Nostr, regardless of whether you're logging in via Nostr or Twitter.  This means broader visibility and more engagement for your content on Nostr platforms!
This has several implications:

📣 Cross-Platform Freedom: Tired of content silos? Us too. Now creators can share content freely across platforms, reaching wider audiences.
Stay tuned for more exciting content features!

🤝 Stronger Connections:
Leveraging Nostr's open social graph, Geyser will enhance:
- Cross-platform follows
- Home page curation based on your Nostr network
- Seamless activity sync between Geyser and Nostr

🛡 Trust & Transparency:
Nostr's open graph helps mitigate scams and impersonation.
Plus, a creator's reputation on Geyser now carries over across Nostr – fostering a more trustworthy environment for the donation economy.

🔓 Data Ownership:
With the ability to export your NSEC using a Private Key Kit, creators maintain control and mobility across Nostr clients, reinforcing our commitment to creator autonomy and censorship resistance. More on this soon.

🌅 Just the Beginning:
Aligning with Nostr opens doors to exciting features: Nostr Posts, replies, polls, hidden posts... Imagine Patreon, but with content flowing seamlessly across the Nostrverse.

🔄 Building Geyser around Openness:
- Embracing open-source philosophy
- Building on robust technical architecture
- Enhancing product potential for creators
We're thrilled about what this means for the broader creator community!

👏 The Superteam
Thanks to the team that made this happen: @npub1jknfxfjynyc6mk3juls0vf6mas8rs747ae9m26e7jn6x56kyqt3quttcvj, @npub13v9zh6hka0heyh5w0ru0ptdyrauf3wx6w25fwxufnz9l0ptax60sg63rka, nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg, @npub1epy7emnm3c6syjwwuwc4hwj6rhrnuux750w6lgrc05fgmdkqfrlq47w65v, @npub1nqe7qkvauxkyay57yxdappqusuzhz3a2gdqvlpk4alygaetege9sskzqnv

💼 Join Our Journey:
Want to start building on one of the best creator tools in the lightning/Nostr space?
We're hiring and designers! DM for details and be part of the change!


What I saw today:

-Ethiopia is blocking entry to hardwallets that are labeled as 'illegal'

-Gemini UK (shitcoin Exchange) is blocking Bitcoin transfer from Exchanges not following VASPs.

Dystopia really is coming and our exit is #bitcoin


Does anyone have any technique for easily converting numbers to hex and vice-versa using just a human brain?


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/97de48c06ae9f830d2f5b39068476bfcf7507853cebad5ac82e24c14ef01540c.jpg


Suppose you're using a CLI too that takes multiline input from stdin and processes it one line at a time, printing the results of each line sequentially.

What is the correct behavior in case one of these stdin lines causes an error? To immediately halt the execution or to print an error message to stderr and continue on the next line? Do you have an example of a CLI tool that does it right?


500 USD bounty for implementing encrypted channels in joinstr

https://gitlab.com/1440000bytes/joinstr/-/issues/4


NEW TUTORIAL:

⚡@`Mutiny Wallet` : Lightning & NOSTR Made Easy⚡
-Automated channels
-Nostr contacts & wallet connect
-No app store necessary!

Give this one some love! Hit the link, give it a like, and share it around 🤟

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHQ6wgT3S2I

Subscribe for free weekly tutorials!
https://youtube.com/@BTCSessions?sub_confirmation=1


nostr:note1j05xd4yu93jgu3ap2frnycfp43l5uaaa282hscyt67k5kvy8fr8qhqtrq0

😎


Oblivious, serverless, asynchronous payjoin v2 receives tested in Mutiny. It’ll take a few more steps to ready for production. Still, the concept works.

https://github.com/MutinyWallet/mutiny-node/pull/820


Meet nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l hackathon semi-finalists! Congratulations to the teams behind these exciting projects!!!

On November 3, at 1:00 pm (Tokyo time) we invite you to hear some of these teams present live AND meet the overall winners!!!

Come check out the projects at nostr:npub1funq0ywh32faz0sf7xt97japu8uk687tsysj8gndj4ehe825sq4s70gs0p

Enuts https://bolt.fun/project/enuts

Joinstr https://bolt.fun/project/joinstr

SplitSats https://bolt.fun/project/SplitSats

Xk6-Nostr https://bolt.fun/project/xk6-nostr

WeaveDB https://bolt.fun/project/weavedb

Crash Glow https://bolt.fun/project/Crash_Glow

Nosskey https://bolt.fun/project/nosskey

Nosta https://bolt.fun/project/nosta

Formstr https://bolt.fun/project/formstr

Goodstr Ui https://bolt.fun/project/goodstr-ui

Shopstr https://bolt.fun/project/shopstr

Zapddit https://bolt.fun/project/zapddit


NRC-20, NostrSwap and "Nostr Assets" are scams that exist only to steal your money. Do not fall for it. Tell your children.


LICENSE madness at its finest.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/940a18a686a6ddf190f06e31e48b1339add3e18281f8b23cd35496c9db5673e3.png


Bitcoin is a mask with bulletproof and no one can stop it

Happy 5th of November.

#bitcoin


On Nov 14 the Human Rights Foundation will launch its CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington, DC

The Tracker will go online for the first time, providing the public with a resource to examine the progress and risks of CBDC implementation worldwide

Like paper dollars or euros, CBDCs are liabilities of central banks

Unlike paper dollars or euros, CBDCs do not offer the privacy protections, neutrality, or finality of cash

Virtually all money today is already digital, but it is typically issued and controlled by private banks and fintech companies, even in dictatorships like China

When consumers use a credit card, spending is at the discretion of the corporation that issued the card

When consumers deposit money into their bank accounts, their funds are liabilities of the bank

CBDCs are an effort to:

1) Replace paper cash with government-issued, government controlled digital credits

2) Reduce the power of private banks

3) Expand state control over the economy

Paper cash doesn’t require identification, can be used by anyone with no discrimination, and cannot be easily tracked

As such, cash is a daily tool of human rights activists, dissidents, and civil society, especially under authoritarian regimes

CBDCs stand to potentially phase out this tool for human rights defenders, making them entirely reliant on currency that is surveilled and easily frozen and censored

Unlike cash, CBDCs can require ID, have expiration dates, be remotely
frozen, and abide by blacklists

HRF believes CBDCs pose a significant threat to human rights work worldwide, especially for people living under tyranny

More than 100 countries are researching CBDCs, while more than 20 have pilots, and a handful of governments have already launched some kind of retail product

Russia, India, the EU, the US, Brazil, and other major governments
have all signaled intent to pursue CBDC projects

HRF considers it important to track these activities and document what risk they pose to human rights

We are pleased to be working with the Bitcoin Policy Institute to launch the CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington at 10:00am ET on November 14th

We are excited to share the work of the project authors: Nick Anthony, Janine Roem, and Matthew Mezinskis

If you would like to learn more about the project or RSVP to the launch event, please contact nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk

We look forward to sharing the resource with all of you on Nov 14

https://cbdchumanrights.org/ https://image.nostr.build/5dcb01114749a54fb356f344bd20d936351cd18d12b3e7ab15c1a0fdcfd9a605.jpg


I'm impressed with the development happening in Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Nostr...

I think that this community, despite ideological differences, still manages to defend one thing in common: Bitcoin.

#bitcoin


Good weekend. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1e742660d5a473a6d9864a57a6b7aa37e22e464609d034c74771b304ff1fb932.jpg


Good morning nostr,

We are about to enter the "then they fight us stage" and it is going to be fucking messy.

 - Build strong local communities. Improve your own skills. Stack relentlessly.

Then we win. 🫡


Why nobody's speaking about this?

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/segwit-ephemeral-anchors/160

#bitcoin


How many times you break "the laws"?
It should be a norm for any real bitcoiner to not just break the laws but to FUCK THE LAWS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ujW3oe_BQ


The magic of Nostr is that it can allow everything to be build on top and users can carry their information cross clients.

As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m put it, “Nostr is a decentralized way to build everything apps.”


No surprise. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/6ea22abd249ba98b312a2d298f5d6f1caf5773a0a572560d1187db6434765a87.jpg


I came to Nostr for the first time in February as a no-coiner.

I stayed on Nostr because of bitcoin.

Keep talking about bitcoin.

#unmarketing


Have you tried https://plebeian.market/ ?


Am I living the dream or is this worse than hell? I can't decide: https://cdn.satellite.earth/8aa45d0a69b72c04bf0e0bf96b6a3624cf4a8c16126b25f383436e4e3849c02e.png


Opportunity for nostr developers to build a better bitcoin dev mailing list

https://bitcoin-irc.chaincode.com/bitcoin-core-dev/2023-10-31#979591


https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak now has a usable readme that actually shows some of what it can do.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/9f0578e4b9f7c3ff1a15b53ecdeb9533fd3b97577420e720c021d49e211b0b0d.png


Moore's law absolutely rekt https://image.nostr.build/9bf982930f8de1dd84b99a67c50406c33539fa0f63dec873dcdcda342405ae74.jpg


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1a6bf395e12ded967b26145d865972095794ef555701aba0f5223d39e42d36be.jpg


the NOSTR CEO commissioned me directly to make this ad. could we make sure the normies see it so I don't get fired? thx ❤

https://v.nostr.build/QV2Y.mp4


good morning, nostr only 🫡


15 years. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


The State wanna control people there's any cost

Our best answer is the #bitcoin

https://m.primal.net/HOzL.png


Working on Nostr Wallet Connect Connect (taking better name suggestions)

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/851


millions will use tether until the inevitable cruise missle, rug, or shotgun kyc happens

they will learn an expensive lesson on why bitcoin is valuable - the most effective way to understand trusted third party risk is to get burned by one

tether usage -> tether blow up -> bitcoin standard


A guy sends me a polite email, and says in a couple paragraphs that 1) he doesn't really see any role for bitcoin in a portfolio, it has no intrinsic value, and it just trades on sentiment and also that 2) it threatens USD hegemony and so politicians are likely going to add friction to it.

So I'm like, well, if there's nothing particularly valuable about it to give it any value or consideration for a portfolio, why does it threaten USD hegemony? Like, it threatens the largest and most globally salable monetary network in the world while having no intrinsic value, no portfolio role, while just being a thing that trades on sentiment?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯


In the past month I’ve travelled from Vancouver to LA, amsterdam, bali and now tokyo. at each stop I was able to pay and zap people in every part of the world with 0 friction. Bitcoin is borderless. When you hold bitcoin you have the ability to store and teleport value to any person on the planet. At some point we were convinced we need permission to do this, but not anymore. #Bitcoin the closest thing we have to true freedom, and its ours 🌏🧡


“When I say payments, I actually mean someone’s entire financial life”

-- Elon Musk

https://m.primal.net/HOkn.png


More one awesome list is coming...

https://github.com/Rsync25/awesome-bitvm

#bitcoin


GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.


A very good episode from Axioms of Liberty podcast: what are some of the objections to an anarchist society?
- readings from "Voluntaryst Handbook" - chapter 23
https://fountain.fm/episode/5f3gexMqTJHMwcElA2vA


Crowdfunding campaign for joinstr on nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9

https://geyser.fund/project/joinstr


The basic ways the government steals your money:

- If you earn it: income TAX
- If you own property: property TAX
- If you spend it: sales TAX
- If you save it: “inflation TAX”
devaluation through inflation (not a tax per se, but reduces purchasing power)
- If you invest it: capital gains TAX
- If you start a business: licensing fees “TAX”
- If you own a profitable business: corporate TAX
- If you gift it: gift TAX
- If you pass away: estate TAX
- If you travel: tourist or departure TAXes
- If you buy fuel: fuel TAX
- If you own a vehicle: vehicle registration & road TAX
- If you buy certain goods: excise TAX
(on items like alcohol, tobacco, & gasoline)
- If you use utilities: utility TAX
- If you import or export goods: customs duties and tariffs “TAX”
- If you extract natural resources: resource royalties and severance TAXes
- If you own a pet: pet licensing fees “TAX”
- If you engage in certain activities: sin TAXes
(on items or activities deemed harmful, like tobacco or gambling)
- If you buy or sell property: stamp duty or transfer TAX
- If you stay in a hotel: hotel TAX
- If you fly: airport TAXes and fees

 Am I forgetting anything 🥵

#AskNostr 🙋♀❓
#OverTaxed 🪙 💰
#TaxSlave ⛓🔊
#BostonTeaParty 🚢 🫖
#Bitcoin #BTC   🧡 https://image.nostr.build/085a1bfad825fc5417577d70ecba45ae104a052f84e8282ec7fa1d57d4645496.jpg


What is your best way to buy #Bitcoin  KYC free? Trying to put a more thorough list together. 👇🏻


JavaScript DLC was a software designed for me and in this week, I had a great surprise developers are interested into protocol and DLCs. I never thought about potential impact of this kind product. Now after this, I’ll deliver a better product for people! I’m open in accept help via PR or Issues. The product is FOSS. #bitcoin


Very work in this week and achievements. Keep following your dreams. #bitcoin #nostr https://image.nostr.build/3c0e6ea9f2289abc6dc441a85f342408833ed0e9e280e912c575c093b8cb4db3.jpg


I love when people ask something to be censored on a "censorship resistant" network


#zapathon nostr:note1qp3qpkqls9m8whetd5mefgt8pd3pnxa7f22dk2zydhcppwa5zfjstvf347


Core v24.2

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2023-October/000128.html

#bitcoin


In these two years of bear market and development, I created several things, tested ideas, explored businesses.

2023 was a good year, and I hope 2024 will be even better.

#bitcoin


Our wallet would be at the third step from the top but with a self-custodial Bitcoin <-> Euro conversion tool integrated into it

nostr:nevent1qqsp038vnague0rvvswr5tsdrluyxzf0uv49wj03n0jaq3t00t20angpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyru6ev9sxnzvz9m7np03gculx9l0plk7uajhcpstz3hw0yqzgvt7cqcyqqqqqqgf0ed4g


Darthcoin have best memes 😎


Look at this 👇

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Next dev call

https://bitcoincore.reviews/28368

#bitcoin


If you had a way to preserve your nostr identity so that you could recover from someone compromising your nsec and it required writing a note in your nostr client, would you do it?

Repost for visibility, want to see what people think.


In the world exist many ISPs and free market solve fix this problem.


Core v26 is coming

https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/26.0%E2%80%90Release%E2%80%90Notes%E2%80%90Draft


KYC, regulation, compliance
that's where they attack

nostr:nevent1qqs2hvg5n2sj7keeakt0kesjc36u6tyvyeuqfxy9w3yqpuded0vstpspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzps072tu0taqyzh5zxac34epknl2wea6nex2m2yh5ngdjdwx6rptfqvzqqqqqqyg8a6yl


Should these 2 events be considered same by nostr relays?

Cc: nostr:npub108kuptq55xrxqc8ttfjqwwhkh7ruur7d3drm2yyp8ul9t86w9g0s3v9usw

https://m.primal.net/HOWc.png


People defend regulation on Bitcoin and LN, but forget internet doesn't needed regulation, compliance.

The internet is the anarcho-capitalism in his form true

#bitcoin


#Bitcoin  Hardware Wallets are like underwear:

- you shouldn't share them with others,

- you don't show them in public,

- and you buy new ones every other year.

h/t Pirillo variant on passwords...


Commies hate ppl who build new things, and charge for it.


bitcoin is incredibly scarce...

#satsqueeze


This is the way

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/829


good morning nostr, stay humble and stack sats 🫡


KYC/AML only benefits the King's friends (Exchanges with lobby) and the State itself

https://stacker.news/items/291130

#bitcoin


People already are creating shitcoins with Taproot Assets. Congratulations 🤡🤣 #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/c074732be31d8a050f80da486d3f8785e7c7a7095701e2d2e03e3e2a5ff59700.jpg


This is the first time I am seeing a non-bitcoin account and content in trending

https://m.primal.net/HODr.png


It seems the #1 issue with people joining nostr resolves around censorship, but not in the way you'd think. A handful of Redditors said they wouldn't join nostr because nostr has or could have hate speech, pedos, etc. and you couldn't ban or moderate those users.

I get it. 99.999% of humanity doesn't approve of that content and doesn't want to be near that type of content.

I don't know if I have a good enough answer for them though. I told them that with free speech, that means all speech is allowed, which includes the good speech and the bad speech.

If assholes want to have their corner of nostr and hang out with other assholes, then so be it. The other 99.999% of humanity will hang out everywhere else with positivity and good vibes, zapping each other non-stop.


the payment is a distraction - verifying the identity of all users the goal

nostr fixes this 🫡

https://m.primal.net/HNvA.png


When I started taking a stand against certain things like Drivechains and Ordinals, it cost me dearly, not in a financial sense, but in an interpersonal sense. However, after my reflections, I realized that I am not wrong in doing this, but right. My toxicity as a maximalist has not ended, however, it has exploded and I will continue here to defend my truth and authenticity regardless of who says it is "wrong". My Bitcoin maximalism has no trading. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/9630b52736671f38f65f25c6c73e5a12df02a76533a860d78a5f08f07c46c8b4.jpg


Someone posted an image of my encrypted nostr DMs on Twitter. Of course I know that it's possible to see the metadata but I didn't realize how creepy it feels. You can see who I talk to and when. You could deduce my social circles, maybe even real world activity related to my messaging patterns.

From now on, I will stop using normal DMs on nostr. The traces they leave is horrifying and you shouldn't use DMs either.

*Please do not send me any DMs from your npub if you have something to communicate to me.*

Use a random npub or a giftwrap or use a different method or use a different network to reach me.

Nostr DMs have always been a complete privacy hell and I urge anyone to realize this and act accordingly.

I repeat: DO NOT DM ME. I WONT DM YOU.


Doxxing my Reddit name. I don't care. The stakes are too high. Help me on-board Redditors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/17ath84/feeling_rugged_by_reddit_why_not_give_nostrs/


After RGB, Counterparty, OP_RETURN war, Omnibolt, now Taproot Assets are on mainnet too. Now we’ve many protocols allow create shitcoins on Bitcoin: https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-10-18-taproot-assets-v0.3/


The beautiful Nostr is anyone can build his own NIP and release

https://github.com/project-excalibur/Nostr-Playground/tree/main/apps/nip108

#bitcoin


Idea for an app that is only used for DMs and focused on privacy:

- A new public key sent to everyone Alice follows
- This key is used by Bob to message Alice from a new key which contains another public key
- Alice's response sent to Bob's new key using a new key contains another public key

TL;DR Each NIP 4 event uses a new key, sends to new key and has another key to get the reply. New tor circuit is used for each event so all events are created using different IP addresses.


Build tools for Nostr and Bitcoin is better job!

#bitcoin #nostr


you do not have to quit tiktok or twitter if you do not want to but just know that I am disappointed in your lack of conviction


The correct is "the Nostr".

"I've joined the Nostr today."
"The Nostr is a better social network."


Stop writing "NOSTR" in all caps, what are you doing!


BREAKING: OPENSATS FUNDING ADDITIONAL CORE DEV 🫡

https://opensats.org/blog/vasil-dimov-receives-lts-grant


Let's back back to the important discussions.

NAW-stir
NOH-stir
NOH-struh

How do you pronounce Nostr?


Payjoin is the future!

https://stacker.news/items/284908

#bitcoin


Nobody can stop your dreams. #bitcoin


A China-linked #Bitcoin mine in Wyoming is drawing security concerns due to its close proximity to a Microsoft data center and an Air Force base that controls nuclear missiles.
-NYT

https://image.nostr.build/69eaf0bccf1255e6bd909ba14a7e8da397b7e6a014a3166cd84b5a35dcae9858.jpg


killer app of nostr is the address book of lnurls tied to cryptographic identities so that I can zap all the people who bought me drinks after my phone died last night.


The world is headed in this direction. Resist now or suffer in tyranny forever.

https://video.nostr.build/ed59c268dca89b8a259c9c667ef23101de94cd212f1379a96f6b139a2f88541b.mp4


P2P Coinjoins instead centralized coordinators and alternatives like Payjoin will be very important in the front of this Dystopia world is creating

By this my focus is CoinJoinXT, Lightning, Taproot and Payjoin

#bitcoinhttps://m.primal.net/HNRo.png


“Nobody is using Lightning” should now be a dead meme.

Launching a new Bitcoin report from nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en: How the Lightning Network grew by 1212% in 2 years ⚡

It’s time to pay attention to the incredible work of so many people in the space.

In this report:
- How many transactions on Lightning
- How much volume
- How many users
- Industry overview of 173 companies
- Funding overview
- River-specific insights
- Why are companies interested in Lightning
- Growth accelerators

And yes, an executive summary 😉

You can find the report here https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-network-in-2023/

It would mean a lot if you could share this post and/or the report 🧡

I'll be sharing this report at The Bitcoin Conference in Amsterdam in 2 days! https://image.nostr.build/bf9f3fb3e2404406284640a5861e0a510bfe3e08a3e3fa3db51c885cb8a12469.png